Norway – Nov. 5, 2013 Norway bus killer was due to be deported today The man behind the murder of three people on a bus in Norway was a failed asylum seeker from South Sudan, who was due to be deported the day after the attack The man accused of stabbing to death a woman and two men on an express bus in western Norway was a failed asylum seeker due to be deported on Tuesday. The 31-year-old, who was living at an asylum reception centre in Årdal, near where the bus was hijacked, after having his application rejected in June. “This person had applied for asylum, and come to Norway in April,” a spokesman for Norway’s immigration directorate said. “He was rejected in June, and was supposed to be returned to Spain under the so-called Dublin Regulation.” The man is accused of killing the bus’s driver, Arve Haug Bagn, 55; Margaret Molland Sanden, a 19-year-old biotechnology student, and a Swedish man in his 50s, who has not been named. Police believe that the three victims were the only people on the bus when the man attacked. Bente Dalåker, who runs the reception centre where the killer was housed, said [...]
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